Educational Research: Material Culture and Its Representation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Smeyers, Paul (Editor), Depaepe, Marc (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Educational Research ; 8
• Subjects: Education.; History.; Educational sociology.; Education > Philosophy.; Social sciences.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Educational Philosophy.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; History of Science.; Sociology of Education.

This collection discusses and illustrates how educational research is affected by the economic, institutional and physical contingencies of its time, and in our time even increasingly is driven by them. It is argued that the antidote to this is, however, not to aspire to ‘thought itself’, but instea...